Joseph G. Baldwin AKA Joseph Glover Baldwin Born: Jan-1815 Birthplace: Winchester, VA Died: 30-Sep-1864 Location of death: San Francisco, CA Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi Alabama state legislator 1844-9 as a Whig. His most celebrated work, Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi, documented in humorous manner his life as a frontier lawyer. Baldwin then moved to California during the late part of the Gold Rush, and became a Judge on the Supreme Court of California 1857-64, the final year of which he was Chief Justice of that court.
Author of books:
The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches (1853, memoir) Party Leaders: Sketches (1855, biography) The Flush Times of California (1966, memoir, Ed. Robert E. Amacher and George W. Polhemus)
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